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Title: Jr. HP Travel / Contracting
Post by: Mattmoser on Oct 08, 2012, 04:06
I am fairly new to nuke and will be INPO qualified as a Jr. HP in the next 2 months.  I am looking to work the biannual outages locally in
AZ as well as picking up one to two outages traveling throughout the year.  Does anyone have some solid suggestions on securing non returnee contracts and braking into the industry to gain this experience?
Title: Re: Jr. HP Travel / Contracting
Post by: retired nuke on Oct 08, 2012, 05:03
Quote from: Mattmoser on Oct 08, 2012, 04:06
I am fairly new to nuke and will be INPO qualified as a Jr. HP in the next 2 months.  I am looking to work the biannual outages locally in
AZ as well as picking up one to two outages traveling throughout the year.  Does anyone have some solid suggestions on securing non returnee contracts and braking into the industry to gain this experience?

OK, this is my spoon feeding of the week...

These are the 2 big contracting companies:
http://www.nukeworker.com/forum/index.php/topic,35401.0.html (http://www.nukeworker.com/forum/index.php/topic,35401.0.html) - keyword Atlantic wish list
https://outagelist.bartlettinc.com/outage/php/outage.php (https://outagelist.bartlettinc.com/outage/php/outage.php) - I know Bartlett

There is no such thing as INPO qualified Jr RP tech... read this:
http://www.nukeworker.com/forum/index.php/topic,4395.0.html (http://www.nukeworker.com/forum/index.php/topic,4395.0.html) - Keyword RP experience

Here is info on the site in AZ
http://www.nukeworker.com/forum/index.php/topic,13421.0.html (http://www.nukeworker.com/forum/index.php/topic,13421.0.html) -keyword Palo Verde

Look around on the NW site - lots of info here...
Title: Re: Jr. HP Travel / Contracting
Post by: Smart People on Oct 09, 2012, 11:41
http://www.nukeworker.com/forum/index.php/topic,10706.0.html
Tips for the traveling nukeworker.

http://www.nukeworker.com/forum/index.php/topic,16263.0.html
ten things every new senior should know. still some good tips for new jrs

http://www.nukeworker.com/forum/index.php/topic,25963.0.html
Getting in FAQs

Title: Re: Jr. HP Travel / Contracting
Post by: Rennhack on Oct 09, 2012, 05:11
Quote from: IPREGEN on Oct 09, 2012, 02:58
There must be something going on.
Two helpful responses that are free from the browbeatings.

You jinxed it.
Title: Re: Jr. HP Travel / Contracting
Post by: radbrat on Oct 09, 2012, 05:37
"and braking into the industry"

Kind of like brehmstralung radiation...but not.
Title: Re: Jr. HP Travel / Contracting
Post by: nsz8 on Oct 09, 2012, 10:49
My suggestion to get work... Call these numbers and call them often:

(800)225-0385 - Bartlett
(888)488-0880 - DZ Atlantic

Not saying one is better then the other, but the one that pays you in any given season is your best friend. I'd also suggest that you be willing to take anything they offer you, if you can swing the it.

Good luck. Ask Questions. Don't be a know it all.
Title: Re: Jr. HP Travel / Contracting
Post by: OldHP on Oct 09, 2012, 11:58
Quote from: IPREGEN on Oct 09, 2012, 02:58
There must be something going on.
Two helpful responses that are free from the browbeatings.
It restores my faith in the forum.

Every now and then there is a plea for help that does not raise hackels that want to say, "There is a search function"!  

nsz8 follow these instructions:

Quote from: nsz8 on Oct 09, 2012, 10:49
My suggestion to get work... Call these numbers and call them often:

(800)225-0385 - Bartlett
(888)488-0880 - DZ Atlantic

Good luck. Ask Questions. Don't be a know it all.  

And whoever told you that you would be qualified as an INPO Qualified Jr Tech, does not know a 'rock from a hard place'!  Most of us will help!
Title: Re: Jr. HP Travel / Contracting
Post by: GLW on Oct 10, 2012, 07:39
Quote from: OldHP on Oct 09, 2012, 11:58
....And whoever told you that you would be qualified as an INPO Qualified Jr Tech, does not know a 'rock from a hard place'!  Most of us will help!

I might think more like confusion between INPO and the conversations following NEI 06-13,...
Title: Re: Jr. HP Travel / Contracting
Post by: Smart People on Oct 10, 2012, 09:16
Quote from: IPREGEN on Oct 09, 2012, 02:58
There must be something going on.
Two helpful responses that are free from the browbeatings.

It restores my faith in the forum.

Seemed like an honest question from someone not claiming to be the next gift to nuke.

Sometimes our many years of experience with this forum can help nubies faster than their own search labors. We know what to look for since we probably posted in those threads ourselves.

To the OP; let us know we are not speaking into the wind.
Title: Re: Jr. HP Travel / Contracting
Post by: Eric_Bartlett on Oct 10, 2012, 12:33
Quote from: Mattmoser on Oct 08, 2012, 04:06
I am fairly new to nuke and will be INPO qualified as a Jr. HP in the next 2 months.  I am looking to work the biannual outages locally in
AZ as well as picking up one to two outages traveling throughout the year.  Does anyone have some solid suggestions on securing non returnee contracts and braking into the industry to gain this experience?

Matt - are you not currently onsite at Palo right now with BNI?  If you are the same one that is on site i would recommend talking to your Site Coordinator about returning in the future as a JHP tech.  Let me know how it goes.

Eric
Title: Re: Jr. HP Travel / Contracting
Post by: maerki on Oct 10, 2012, 04:59
Hey everyone I am having the same problem getting started as a jr. HP I graduated roane state community college in april and since then I have submited around 150 resumes and have not had a hit on one yet and now I am working as a permit insulater at watts bar and I have talked to everyone there that I know and seems like nothing is going the right way any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Title: Re: Jr. HP Travel / Contracting
Post by: UncaBuffalo on Oct 10, 2012, 07:59
Quote from: Smart People on Oct 10, 2012, 09:16

Sometimes our many years of experience with this forum can help nubies faster than their own search labors. We know what to look for since we probably posted in those threads ourselves.


:)
Title: Re: Jr. HP Travel / Contracting
Post by: Mattmoser on Oct 17, 2012, 01:34
Thanks for your suggestions everyone.  My main goal is to obtain an inhouse position as an RP, but I realize that 2-3 years of experience is normally necessary to do so.